Money Google tightens measures to remove extremist content on YouTube

07:11 19 june 2017

07:11 19 june 2017 Source:
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Google will expand its collaboration with counter- extremist groups to identify content that may be used to radicalize and recruit extremists , it said. Facebook on Thursday offered additional insight on its efforts to remove terrorism content , a response to political pressure in Europe to militant groups

Google said it would take a tougher position on videos containing supremacist or inflammatory religious content by issuing a warning and not monetizing or recommending them for user endorsements, even if they do not clearly violate its policies.

The company will also employ more engineering resources and increase its use of technology to help identify extremist videos, in addition to training new content classifiers to quickly identify and remove such content.

Social media companies update policies on blocking extremism

YouTube and Facebook are relying on technology, with a helping hand from humans, to monitor contentThat’s the foundation for a couple social media giants’ newest policies targeting extremist content, skirting a delicate balance between freedom of expression and helping people spread dangerous rhetoric.

Google 's Mountain View, Calif., headquarters (Photo: Justin Sullivan, Getty Images). CONNECTTWEET 3 LINKEDINCOMMENTEMAILMORE. SAN FRANCISCO — Pressure on Google is rising after British brands and media outlets started to pull their business from the company and its

alongside YouTube videos featuring Steven Anderson, David Duke and others holding extremist Raise the bar for ad policies and content . Ads will be more effectively removed from content that Google finished by saying it believes these measures will allow advertisers to continue reaching their

"While we and others have worked for years to identify and remove content that violates our policies, the uncomfortable truth is that we, as an industry, must acknowledge that more needs to be done. Now," said Google's general counsel Kent Walker. http://bit.ly/2rLgYEd

Google will expand its collaboration with counter-extremist groups to identify content that may be used to radicalize and recruit extremists, it said.

The company will also reach potential Islamic State recruits through targeted online advertising and redirect them towards anti-terrorist videos in a bid to change their minds about joining.

Germany, France and Britain, countries where civilians have been killed and wounded in bombings and shootings by Islamist militants in recent years, have pressed Facebook and other providers of social media such as Google and Twitter to do more to remove militant content and hate speech.

Facebook on Thursday offered additional insight on its efforts to remove terrorism content, a response to political pressure in Europe to militant groups using the social network for propaganda and recruiting.

Facebook has ramped up use of artificial intelligence such as image matching and language understanding to identify and remove content quickly, the company said in a blog post.

(Reporting by Abinaya Vijayaraghavan in Bengaluru; Editing by Gopakumar Warrier)

Canada's top court rules Google must block some results worldwide .
Canadian courts can force internet search leader Google to remove results worldwide, the country's top court ruled on Wednesday, drawing criticism from civil liberties groups arguing such a move sets a precedent for censorship on the internet. In its 7-2 decision, Canada's Supreme Court found that a court in the country can grant an injunction preventing conduct anywhere in the world when it is necessary to ensure the injunction's effectiveness."The internet has no borders - its natural habitat is global," the Supreme Court wrote in its judgment.

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